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LGBT Community Safe Zone Training
from GEAE Greater Erie Alliance for Equality (GEAE) is sponsoring an “LGBT Community Safe Zone Training,” on May 30, 2012, at 21 la rue dix, 21 W 10th St, Erie PA from 6:30 - 8:30 PM. The training will feature Special Agent Denise Holtz (FBI), Ted Hoover of the Persad Center Pittsburgh, and Joe Aguglia, the executive director of the Erie County Human Relations Committee. The event is free and open to the public.
PFLAG Erie coordinator needed from PFLAG Erie PFLAG Erie & Crawford is seeking immediate help in chapter leadership and monthly meeting facilitation. Training and guidance is available through PFLAG National and our regional rep, Carole. Current PFLAG President, Mark, has been relocated to Alabama. In the interim, Millie—Mark’s mother and former chapter secretary/reasurer—will be there for a couple months to help with meetings. Meetings are second Monday of the month at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, from
LBT Women pose with comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer after her show at Clarion University Venango Campus. Suzanne is an alum of Clarion University. She is the blonce with black top between Laurie Finch and Peggy.
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7:00pm-8:30. We have 15 active households and between seven and ten regular attendees. If you are interested in possibly filling this position, please contact Mark at: pflag.erie.crawford@ gmail.com. or Carole Reeder, PFLAG. North Atlantic Regional Coordinator at bcreeder@gmail.com. Thank You!
Drag Queen Bingo on May 19
from NW PA Pride Alliance NW PA Pride Alliance, Inc. will present Drag Queen Bingo Saturday, May 19 at! the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie, 7180 New Perry Highway, Erie PA. The event is a fundraiser for Pride. Doors open at 6 PM and Bingo starts at 6:30. Admission is $20 and there will be yummy baked goods. Please help support 2012 Pride events while having fun with friends old and new. This fundraiser will help us bring you the 20th Annual Pride Picnic on June 16 and the Parade and Rally on August 25—Sequins, glitter and Bingo daubers, together again, as it was meant to be! For more info, contact Michael Mahler at (814) 4569833 or email mmahler@nwpapride.org or browse to www.nwpapride.org (continued on page 4)